Newsweek states on their own website that this article is unfairly leaning left. What a strange editorial decision.
It’s an unfortunately looking vote gauge (it’s like a poll where readers decide whether it does lean on either side or not), not their opinion about the article.
yeah, it appears that they just took some generic gauge animation, in which arrows always tend to start on the left-hand side (think any of the gauges in your car.) Once you vote it does tell you that the most popular opinion is that it’s center/fair
Its a design decision that is bafflingly stupid. People will use this as evidence of bias.
That’s how Newsweek works now.
On the same day this came out, University of Florida scientists announced a possible new treatment for cancer - not a type of cancer, ALL cancers. It works by stimulating the immune system to kill the tumor, and it’s based on a treatment for glioblastoma that had highly successful human trials last year. Hard to believe these same two developments both came out of the nutbin of Florida.
That is nothing new. Immunotherapies have been around for at least 10 years.
That happens like all the time, but they never work (yet!). Cancer is so agressive, dividing so fast, and thus adapting through mutations that nothing really works fully.
But maybe it will kill some of them, and let’s not stop trying! Fuck cancer.
It’s mRNA based, if I recall.
This makes it, essentially, endlessly flexible. We can now take a sample, sequence it, find the mutations, simulate what the protein looks like when folded, generate* the correct complimentary protein for that target and write the actual amino acid sequence directly into mRNA and give it to the patient.
This is currently incredibly expensive because it’s being done manually by labs full of PhDs. But every part of this process is being rapidly improved and made cheaper.
mRNA based medicines have amazing promise. For example they had the COVID vaccine designed less than 12 hours after sequencing the virus.
*using a diffusion model, like AI image generators but they produce amino acid sequences that generate arbitrarily shaped proteins
mRNA based stuff is indeed incredible, no more randomly just trying things out, it’s really the future IMO.
But for cancer it will just be a tool in the toolbox , I mean you gotta get those samples and cancer change maybe a thousand times a minute, which strain is the “bad” one? Etc. etc. etc.
One theoretical way to stop cancer altogether would be to remove the possibility for telomere lengthening (remove the production of telomerase) and “manually” allow the growth of only stem cell from time to time.
But that’s a long time from now if ever it can be done.
Oh yeah, cancer is incredibility complex. I’m not remotely qualified to predict how this will be used.
I’m on the tech side of things and the ability to read and write arbitrary amino acid sequences along with machine learning models trained to predict (ex: AlphaFold) and generate (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-45051-2) protein structures is absolutely mindblowing.
It’s like we’ve been working on computers by striking flint at their CPU and listening to the traces vibrate in order to interpret the output and now someone has figured out how to plug in a keyboard and monitor.
We’re barely scratching the surface with these techniques and we’ve found multiple ways to make an AIDS vaccine and we’re discovering new ways to beat cancer. The rapid development of the COVID vaccine, thanks to mRNA, likely saved millions or tens of millions of people and prevented a global depression.
It’s such an incredible time for human advancement, it’s a shame we’re all drowning in social media fueled toxicity and people don’t see it.
You got me for a second there.
I thought you would make a “the onion” joke of florida plan’s to send cancer patient to work the fields as a “treatment” for cancer.
I’m surprised (and kinda of relieved?) that your comment is actually about a new scientific discovery.
Oh yeah it’s very exciting. In 2024 a vaccine that targeted glioblastoma, an especially nasty brain cancer with an almost zero survival rate. The vaccine mimics certain aspects of tumor cells, triggering a fast, vigorous immune response that attacks the actual tumor. Encouraged by the results, they’ve somehow generalized the vaccine over the past year to stimulate an immune response to cancer cells in general. Immunological therapy is totally different from chemo or radiation, and a generalized approach is vastly different from what the whole field has been doing for decades. Very promising.
So let me get this straight. The US needs Migrants so much that we’re needing to replace them with teenagers?
Farms have historically used their children as free labor back when they were mostly family owned. That’s why most schools here have a three month summer break. Now they want the factory farms to have that same perk, just with other people’s children.
This country has, throughout its entire history, relied heavily on immigrants to make up the shortfalls in its labor force. A full stoppage of immigration is going to collapse the United States economy. Sooner than later.
I mean, that’s one way to look at it.
The more accurate way to look at is that the American right hates migrants and people of color so much that they would force their children into hard labor just to make sure nobody who sounds or looks different receives any kind of benefit.
Not their children… other peoples children. You know… the poors… those kids can work long hours for low pay and since they are poor, they will be stupid enough to be happy about it. The people voting for this do not need to worry about it affecting their kids… or think they dont…
the American right hates migrants and people of color so much that they would force
theirother people’s children
Yes, if we remove our migrant population then we literally lose the majority of our food production workers. I think it’ll also impact our construction work force, much of our factory workforce, our waitstaff, and various other jobs US citizens turn their noses up at - because those jobs literally would not sustain them and would destroy their bodies over time. Most of these jobs are sustained entirely by the desperation of immigrants trying to escape their prior circumstances.
Edit- added more detail in bold to make it clearer the the issue lies in how these jobs are conducted rather than being with US citizens.
jobs US citizens turn their noses up at
Jobs that typically don’t pay enough for the cost to your body, health, and mental sanity. The overlords love the illegal immigrant stuff because it lets them put the thumbscrews to the workers, both in terms of downward pressure to the wages paid out, and in terms of desperation so the people without other options are forced to work in horrible conditions for terrible pay.
It’s telling that they blame the migrants workers for “stealing the jerbs” instead of the businesses that hire migrants workers in order to get around paying a fair wage
Why blame a white capitalist when anyone else can take the fall?
Florida briefly tried to enforce it on this basis and immediately had a labor crisis so afaik they stopped.
That’s a fair critique, I made it sound more like US citizens are snobby for rejecting underpaid, dangerous jobs when in reality the US’s base infrastructure still entirely relies on a form of slave labor to persist. I should’ve been more nuanced with my description.
It’s not even a critique, really. We’re all fed up, angry, and looking to throw around punches at everything. My comments are just as much about venting and getting mad.
Whoa whoa whoa, teenager is already a bit old and commands more hourly
Now that you’re saying. Really expected them to use actual 9 year old children for this. But even so, it doesn’t look like a bright future if they’re forcing adolescents and young adults into slavery.
Capitalist rule: If you can’t exploit people, just find people who are more exploitable.
Not surprising. They didn’t plan ahead whatsoever and thought “it’ll all work out” as if Conservative promises held more weight than the hot air required to speak them.
Well, the reason it didn’t work out now is obviously the Democrats somehow.
There’s I think a dollop on the brassero program that details a past program where they’d ship high schoolers to farms for the summer in an attempt to reduce migratory workers. The program failed immediately. Conservatives are insane in the literal definition of the word.
I haven’t listened to the dollop in a minute but I’m pretty sure that same episode is literally about the first wave of illegal immigration propaganda in the US, talks about how the borders changed in the 1930s.
Why did the children keep falling apart? Were they made of wet cardboard?
The front fell off
what’s the news here? They are basically using the same arguments the US used to not ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Minors being the parents property is still an almost uncontroversial position in the US even if people don’t phrase it like that.
See also: the troubled teen industry. Ir parenting is too much work, you can send your kid to torture school.
Every last one of those places needs to be burned down, the staff and investors should be hanged.
The news is that USA is still a disgusting labor camp. Always has been.
Florida’s what now?
I mean, that’s how it used to be when I was growing up.
The fact that “how it used to be” in your childhood produced a scumbag like you is a compelling argument to not let people’s childhoods be like that anymore.
I mean, that’s how it used to be when I was growing up.
Also, this is complete and utter bullshit. I’m older than Ron boy, and child labor laws predate me. The folks picking crops in the fields in the 80’s and 90’s were the same immigrants that are (or were, I guess) doing it today. And anyone who attended Yale almost certainly wasn’t out picking crops as a kid. Like most members of the GOP, he has zero attachment to reality.
“I was beaten as a child and I ended up fine” says man who beats children.
The bill would have permitted 16- and 17-year-olds to work overnight on school days and work longer than an eight-hour day before a school day. Some 14- and 15-year-olds would also have been allowed to work those hours.
This is a horrifying concept and a great way to keep kids uneducated so they keep voting for lying repubs when they get older.
Governor Ron DeSantis said during a panel discussion in March: “Why do we say we need to import foreigners, even import them illegally, when, you know, teenagers used to work at these resorts, college students should be able to do this stuff? … What’s wrong with expecting our young people to be working part-time now? I mean, that’s how it used to be when I was growing up.”
They also used to work in factories where they’d get maimed and other high-risk environments. Shall we bring that back too, Governor Dipshit Fascist? Seriously, get fucked.
They are framing it like plucky shirtless college boys might wanna go pick cucumbers for a weekend to make a few bucks for rootbeer floats down at the soda-fountain.
One of the things that infuriates me about our species broadly is how terrible people are at visualizing actual, real systems and their scope and scale.
If you don’t know anything about the factory-farming our society requires to survive, you should probably take a short tour of the massive machine we’ve built and depend on so you understand the scale of the problem and why even the immigrants we have/had now aren’t even enough to keep the system running. This is why aging populations are a huge problem, this is a foundational cornerstone of our whole civilization, much like medicine and vaccines, and it’s being waved off like something we can just swap out demographics for funsies and to give bro’s trying to afford their new baseball mitts and textbooks, all good, right??
I mean, they could work a summer picking produce and have enough money to buy a house, at least that’s what the old man down the street told me. And he owns a house, so I bet he would know.
Republican state Senator Jay Collins, the bill’s sponsor, said the measure was about parental rights: “We should let them say what’s best for their kids at 16- to 17-year-olds, that’s what we’re saying by this.”
Anyone who puts forth a measure aimed at “parental rights”, it’s always something that’s aimed at parents’ right to treat their children like property
Funny how you never hear them say “parental responsibilities.”
Every one of these is always “Parent’s Rights Act” and the text is like “murdering your gay/trans 10-year-old is now totally legal”.
“My kids are in need of a proper traditional upbringing, which means locking them in a box and tenderizing them like veal, until they’re old enough to be sold at auction.”
It would also have scrapped required 30-minute meal breaks
It’s a parent’s right to make sure their child works an 8 hour shift with no breaks! Breaks are socialism!
They’ve already scrapped mandatory water breaks for outside workers :(
So let’s make the jobs nobody wants to do even worse while we deport the few remaining people willing to do them.
Then try and get notoriously hard working and focused teenagers to do it.
"You should be able to give your child a job at a slave wage in awful conditions. That’s a parental decision.
“What if I want to give my child the opportunity to explore their gender identity? Thats a parental decision too.”
“Off to the gulag with you all.”
statesparents rights!Why is it always about slavery?
Like how is the female property to keep the children in line if the children aren’t also property?
I can’t wait to be out of Florida
Best decision I ever made
lol do American politicians seriously try to frame child labor laws as taking away parents rights?
part of the conservative ideology is that children are property and should be molested, not heard.
In ancent rome there was a law,that went something like “you cannot sell your son into slavery a third time”. Americans would see that as a violation of parental rights
Third? The fuck did someone do to cause that?! Was there some dude who sold his son into slavery and then said son got out of slavery at least three times so the Romans had to pass a law to keep that from happening again? Why do I get the feeling Crassus was involved.
Of course! Especially those from the party that wants crops to be picked, but doesn’t want anyone who would actually do it to exist or survive in our country. And because the term “child labor” in general is unpalatable to most people. For good reason…
Sounds like a right nightmare ya got goin on there bud
Yeah, it’s not great here… Unless you’re a billionaire and want to exploit people!
When I was a kid, my mom was outraged that somebody made the statement, “children aren’t their parent’s property.”
So, yeahCurrently every politician making a name for themselves will frame anything they can in any way they can. Words have little meaning lately so you just say whatever the fuck you want and worry about the angle later.
It’s just embarrassing for people that this works on. So stupid.
Do they even purify the drinking water in Florida? … or are people there just this stupid?
Like from the toilet?
This one goes in the mouth and this one… No, wait
Your kids are starving. Carl’s Jr. believes no child should go hungry. You are an unfit mother. Your children will be placed in the custody of Carl’s Jr. Carl’s Jr… “Fuck You, I’m Eating.”
Go away, 'bating!
Large population of boomers with a lifetime of lead poisoning, and they vote.
Maybe that was the case 20 years ago, but today there native son Gen-X and Millennial shits are voting just as hard R as the old folks used to. I’ve been here the whole time and watched the whole state transition from “haha” dumb to “dude, wtf?” dumb.
I’m not giving them lead as a pass. There’s a huge swath of Boomers who are just shitass, toxic, hateful people. They never grew out of their angsty, entitled bitter selves, and most are broadly uneducated, and resentful despite failing upwards for 30-40 years as a confluence of luck.
I never said it was a pass. But it is something you must take into account.
We added fucking lead to everything back then. Even the fucking water lines and gasoline pumping it into every breath they took whether they wanted to or not. An entire generation fucked by lead without knowing it at the time.
Lead exposure has been shown to things like increased aggression. Which propaganda then takes to the next level by stoking artificial fear.
The way you phrase and articulate your statements reads like you are suggesting that lead is the culprit of Boomer behavior, and not deep character flaws and a broad sense of entitlement and narcissistic indulgences. Hence my rebuttal.
Oh no there’s a lot of bullshit with the boomers. Lead is just one of many things. It’s not all just because they’re assholes, there are some legitimate contributors that result in the extreme bullshit pie.
DeSantis just outlawed fluoride in water and my city just… went along with it. It’s the dumbest state and I can’t wait to leave.
Wait what? you actually want fluoride in your drinkwater???
Yes because I don’t want to end up like Calgary and Juneau and I’m not a lunatic.
I’m not the one you asked, but adding fluoride to tap water was a revolution in dental health, so yeah.
Just like most things, concentration matters. A little fluoride is very good for you. A lot of fluoride is bad for you. They put a “very good for you” amount in the water, and if you don’t get it from the water you should take supplements.
You may have seen conspiracy theories about fluoride addition which have existed since the 70s, but those have about as much credibility as chemtrails.
Don’t know about any conspiracy theories, but my take is tapwater should be as clean as possible without any additives. Fluoride is in fish, fruits, toothpaste, make sure you eat healthy enough so you don’t need your water source to be “contaminated”.
But I guess in the US and the food quality its better than nothing.
The introduction of flouride to drinking water saw a massive improvement in the public’s dental health across the board. It is still widely considered to be one of the greatest public health initiatives of the 20th century.
You should also keep in mind that drinking water always has some level of natural flouride in it. Just the concentration varies by region. Public health officials discovered that areas with higher amounts of natural flouride also had lower rates of cavities and tooth decay. So some cities have their water flouridated to bring their flouride content up to beneficial levels.
Adding fluoride to water is not US specific.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation_by_country
I hear mercury is a tasty exotic beverage in Florida.
The place is surrounded by sea and riddled with swamps, how dare you try to homogonize all the tasty natural flavors.
Corrupt government. Look at the number of Senate votes against their district: https://digitaldemocracyproject.org/bills/employment-of-minors-hb1225-2025
